Langston Hughes Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
